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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Metaphor
Folklore
Flashback
Verbal Irony
2. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Complication
Connotation
Cliche
Dactyl
3. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Assonance
Situational Irony
Parody
Antagonist
4. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Rhythm
Pyrrhic
Tone
Plot
5. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Dialect
Elision
Conflict
Blank Verse
6. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
Convention
Allusion
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Narrator
7. A four line stanza in a poem.
Syntax
Quatrain
Pyrrhic
Connotation
8. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Syntax
Dactyl
Sonnet
Iamb
9. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Syntax
Legend
Myth
Conflict
10. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Dialect
Conflict
Foil
Narrator
11. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Reversal
Aphorism
Comic Relief
Caesura
12. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Sestina
Act
Foil
Myth
13. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Assonance
Sestet
Hyperbole
Epiphany
14. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Paradox
Foreshadowing
Closed Form
Enjambment
15. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Dialogue
Literal Language
Catharsis
Couplet
16. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Allegory
Elision
Syntax
Paradox
17. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Sestet
18. A short saying with a moral.
Comic Relief
Aphorism
Epic
Quatrain
19. The person who 'tells' the story.
Style
Theme
Syntax
Narrator
20. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Spondee
Motif
Trochee
Fiction
21. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Falling Action
Dialogue
Ballad
Aubade
22. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Character
Figurative Language
Foil
Ode
23. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Trochee
Flashback
Rhythm
Ballad
24. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Alliteration
Point of View
Figurative Language
Antagonist
25. The organizational form of a literary work.
Folklore
Myth
Connotation
Structure
26. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Antagonist
Analogy
Assonance
Point of View
27. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Plot
Onomatopoeia
Epic
Elegy
28. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Style
Fiction
Plot
Sestina
29. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Connotation
Comic Relief
Nonfiction
Falling Action
30. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Analogy
Persona
Style
Setting
31. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Parody
Ode
Folklore
Sonnet
32. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Cliche
Epiphany
Sestina
Falling Action
33. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Free Verse
Ode
Conflict
Villanelle
34. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Image
Apostrophe
Irony
Diction
35. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Onomatopoeia
Audience
Fiction
Theme
36. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Lyric Poem
Rising Action
Imagery
Apostrophe
37. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Ode
Parody
Meter
3rd Person (Limited)
38. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Aphorism
Subplot
Stereotype
Fiction
39. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Myth
Conceit
Falling Action
1st Person
40. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Cliche
Free Verse
Diction
Metonymy
41. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Folklore
Parallelism
Sestet
Assonance
42. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Parallelism
Enjambment
Rising Action
Sonnet
43. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Irony
Flashback
Denouement
Meter
44. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Fiction
Connotation
45. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Caesura
Rhyme
Author's Purpose
Apostrophe
46. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Stanza
Metonymy
Sonnet
Elegy
47. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Ballad
Parable
Diction
Dialect
48. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Iamb
Rhyme
Legend
Foreshadowing
49. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Audience
Apostrophe
Personification
Lyric Poem
50. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Dialogue
Parallelism
Conceit
Aubade